Robert Pierzak is a composer and has written music for small instrumental chamber combinations, electronics, voice, and large numbers of homogeneous instruments. He studied composition at Ithaca College and the Eastman School of Music and is currently in the PhD program in composition at UC San Diego.  Recently, Mr. Pierzak has been interested in integrating phonetic art, abstract literature, and archetypal musical elements into his works, creating a type of musical theater. He has spent the better part of the last couple of years finishing a cycle of five primarily vocal-based works entitled Endangered Banana, whose themes explore processes of how ideas can come to have meaning within a community.  Pierzak’s numerous awards include the BMI Student Composer Award (including the Carlos Surinach Prize for being the youngest recipient that year), the Howard Hanson Large Ensemble Prize, the Smadbeck Composition Award, and the Yale College Composer’s Group High School Composition Award.

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Pierzak: Work Samples

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Endangered Banana #5: banana boy’s sudden/eventual demise/revenge (below)

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…remaining only mouths (below)

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Smith-Beams: Part III (below)

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